>Am I correct in assuming that when you use SQL Select, the TOP syntax is not optimized for an index?
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>I have a table MYORDERS with field ORDERNO that has index tag.
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>When I try:
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>select top 10 * from MYORDERS order by ORDERNO
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>The query takes considerable time. I can sort of "see" that VFP selects all records and then selects 10 from the top. Is there a way to make this query run faster?
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Use VFP 9. This is one of the areas where performance has improved in VFP 9. When I last tested, I couldn't see a difference between 8 and 9 on a medium-size table (about 75,000 records), but selecting the top 20 out of a million took about 1/3 the time in VFP 9 as in VFP 8.

Tamar